Priceless

- Argy

BTW, when the campaign ends, what do you guys think about collating all the AARs and screenshots and publishing the compilation as an e-book or similar? Something that we could print out and keep as a souvenir. Personally, I'd love that.

Thank you.

Itkovian

I already volunteered to help with that on another thread somewhere. I've been thinking there are two ways to do it. One is day by day, but because the campaigns aren't linked closely enough i think this will come across as disjointed. The other is by pilot which i think will be best because it preserves the narrative of each 'voice' and also makes it easier for people to opt out if they don't want their posts included. It will take a bit more work but we just need to make sure Doug doesn't close down the forum before we've captured all the text.

It would be nice to present the eBook to the BoB Historical society too...

H

Love the idea of making the AARs into a book!
I've got all mine saved in Word anyway, purely for the fact that I've had to do a mix of flying on the day, and also getting flights in advance and then posting after the day has gone as work time allows.

It would be nice to have a little time to be able to make any corrections and additions (extra screenshots, a few more historical details to the manuscripts & spelling especially!) before everything is collated. Would this be possible?

Cheers!
Rob

(F/O RNH)

CPS_Bomber

Sure, that saves us having to dig them out one by one! I'll coordinate the work with Argy and anyhone else who wants to volunteer and come up with a timeline for pulling this together.

Of course the ideal is if everyone can do what you have done, and pull their own campaign text together by cutting and pasting all their posts into a text document, but that would just be a bonus...

H

And I still managed to mess it up, hopefully there's another Luftwaffe report for today to get the order sorted.

Oh and BTW Len Purves is heading back to the fray hopefully with 504 Sqn flying Hurricanes.

Had a great mission in my 110 campaign where I experience the AI Lufbery maneouvre for the first time as Luftwaffe pilot.

It was only implemented as an AI tactic in patch 2.10 or 2.11 and it has a very low frequency in my experience seeing it from the RAF side. In all my attacks on Bf110s, I have only seen a Lufbery once or twice. Usually they just dump their bombs and engage normally.

Today I was flying as a flight leader and when the RAF was spotted I turned toward them as normal. However I looked back and saw the rest of the section was circling low over the water in a definite Lufbery. Against my better judgement, I rejoined them. The AAR sums up what happened - it was a slaughter. So perhaps it isn't a good idea to make it more common.

But we do have an issue with flight models which a couple of players on the RAF side have noted, and we need to address in the BDG with our FM guru Ken (BlueSix). The Bf109s still have a tendency to make lawn darts of themselves when strafing enemy aircraft on the landing field (not however, when strafing buildings, which is strange).

And at the start of this mission I saw a Hurricane plough straight into the sea without even trying to pull up. Could have been random, but it looked very much like the lawn dart problem. We gained a little height as the dogfight wore on, so he was the only one.

Anyway, it was an educational and quite terrifying experience, flying around in circles, watching 110s fall one after the other. I was expecting the disengage command to be given earlier but it was not given until we were down to 2 aircraft from a starting total of 6. After that we ran for it but the Hurris couldn't or didn't follow.

Official start of The Blitz today. I marked it by posting a couple of speeches rather than AARs to give a little extra context to those dark days.

During the past two weeks Fighter Command lost 300 pilots and received only 260 replacements. 295 fighters destroyed, 171 seriously damaged. Six of the seven sector stations of 11 group and 5 of the advance airfields barely operational. Invasion seemingly imminent.

Stephen Bungay's analysis shows the Luftwaffe was sustaining greater losses and replacing them less efficiently than the RAF, and on this basis alone would have lost the Battle anyway even if they didn't turn against London. It's also doubtful if Germany had either the will or the capacity to really invade.

But on Sept 7 1940 no one knew any of that.

Just to say that I've got a lot of catching up to do with posting recent AARs (working on them over 8th & 9th Sept), but I will make all the required posts/bumps to preserve continuity!

Cheers!
Rob

(F/O RNH)

CPS_Bomber

We've lost the 6th 7th and 8th in your thread bumping, Rob